Henkel (XETRA: HEN3) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany that owns 12 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1]
Henkel was founded in Aachen in 1876 and is run as a partnership limited by shares with the Henkel family holding a controlling block of ordinary shares. It combines a consumer brands business in laundry, home care and hair with a larger industrial adhesives division.
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acquisitions recorded · 1 since 2015
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Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Henkel bought all of OLAPLEX Holdings for $2.06 a share in cash, a total transaction value of $1.4 billion, and closed on 7 July 2026, when OLAPLEX shares stopped trading on Nasdaq. The brand had about €370 million of sales in 2025 and joined Henkel Consumer Brands, which Henkel says makes it the second-largest company in professional hair care globally.
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Henkel owns 12 consumer brands tracked here, including Persil (Henkel), OLAPLEX, Dial, Schwarzkopf, Purex and Somat.
Yes. Henkel is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany and was founded in 1876.
Henkel is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as HEN3 on the XETRA.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is OLAPLEX on 7 July 2026.
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